For the technologie we have tho choose form a compaq 3500(scsi LVD)with Windows
NT or a Sun Utra10(scsi LVD). we could connect it to an Exabyte X80 lybrary
with two Mamouth2 drives = 864Gb/hr capacity. we have 25 NT servers and 4
small unix box.

Some tells me to choose Unix as a master, do you have any solid reason. Becose
i had to justify the 10K$ hier price for the unix version!

Any problems with Netbackup version for NT master backup server and backuping
Unix(restoring from scratch)?

2- All the server are connect to 100mb ethenet switch. My second question
is : I think the bottle neck gone be the network, should i install a second
100mb ethernet card for dual homing or install one gigabyte card in my backup
server connect directly with my other server switch.

3- The PCI bus on my Sun ultra10(sparc cpu at 440mhz) server is only at 33mhz,
but if ear that sun make something to boost the bus performance, do your
unix guy know what they did? is this a bad idee to put my master backup and
media server on it.

Some one tell me that unix is betther and faster on I/O. do you think it
is true and a good reason enought to put my master backup server on My Sun
ultra10 server (running solaris 2.7)

ANYone have a comment???

05-01-2000, 04:14 PM

unix

Y Netbackup on UNIX or NT

Do any one have a comment, on using Netbakup for NT? Some problems? Have you
change for or from Unix.

Please I need some input!!!

"Alain richard" <Alain.Richard@mef.gouv.qc.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
>
>A question for an expert.
>
>1- We have to chose Netbackup Master backup server on NT or UNIX???
>
>For the technologie we have tho choose form a compaq 3500(scsi LVD)with[/color]
Windows[color=blue]
>NT or a Sun Utra10(scsi LVD). we could connect it to an Exabyte X80 lybrary
>with two Mamouth2 drives = 864Gb/hr capacity. we have 25 NT servers and[/color]
4[color=blue]
>small unix box.
>
>Some tells me to choose Unix as a master, do you have any solid reason.[/color]
Becose[color=blue]
>i had to justify the 10K$ hier price for the unix version!
>
>Any problems with Netbackup version for NT master backup server and backuping
>Unix(restoring from scratch)?
>
>
>
>2- All the server are connect to 100mb ethenet switch. My second question
>is : I think the bottle neck gone be the network, should i install a second
>100mb ethernet card for dual homing or install one gigabyte card in my backup
>server connect directly with my other server switch.
>
>
>3- The PCI bus on my Sun ultra10(sparc cpu at 440mhz) server is only at[/color]
33mhz,[color=blue]
>but if ear that sun make something to boost the bus performance, do your
>unix guy know what they did? is this a bad idee to put my master backup[/color]
and[color=blue]
>media server on it.
>
>Some one tell me that unix is betther and faster on I/O. do you think it
>is true and a good reason enought to put my master backup server on My Sun
>ultra10 server (running solaris 2.7)
>
>ANYone have a comment???[/color]

05-02-2000, 04:38 AM

unix

Re: Y Netbackup on UNIX or NT

Alian,

We have been using NetBackup 3.2 on NT for the last year. Like any system
we have encountered some problems but overall, it has been a stable and
dependable system.

about 90% of the servers supported are NT and the remainder are UNIX. In
the near future we will be using 3 master server with STK9710 robotic
libraries (2 NT and one Unix) along with 5 media servers (also in NT and
UNIX) supporting nearly 200 servers.

Unix in general can drive a network better than NT, but the cost may not
justify the need to have better network traffic/throughput.

Just a few thoughts. If you like to talk more on the subject, you may
contact me at luis,baez@cinergy.com

--
Luis Baez
Cinergy, Server Technology Group

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> change for or from Unix.
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> Please I need some input!!!
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>
> "Alain richard" <Alain.Richard@mef.gouv.qc.ca> wrote:[color=green]
> >
> >A question for an expert.
> >
> >1- We have to chose Netbackup Master backup server on NT or UNIX???
> >
> >For the technologie we have tho choose form a compaq 3500(scsi LVD)with[/color]
> Windows[color=green]
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> >Any problems with Netbackup version for NT master backup server and[/color][/color]
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> >Unix(restoring from scratch)?
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> >2- All the server are connect to 100mb ethenet switch. My second question
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> >Some one tell me that unix is betther and faster on I/O. do you think it
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Sun[color=blue][color=green]
> >ultra10 server (running solaris 2.7)
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> >ANYone have a comment???[/color]
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